Compress or expand letter spacing
letter-spacing
Fine tune the distance between the individual characters of words to create titling effects and to improve readability.
Property values
The amount of space between two adjacent letters of a word can be reduced by specifying a negative value, or increased by specifying a positive value.
Use any of these font-relative typographic units:
| em | em | The font-size of the current font |
| rem | relative em | The font-size of the <html> element |
| ch | "0" | The advance measure (the width) of the current font's "0" glyph |
| ic | ideograph count | The advance measure (the width) of the current font's "水" ideograph |
Or use any of these fixed size units which are independent of the current font:
| in | inch | A size equal 96px |
| px | pixels | A size equal to 1/96 inch |
| pt | point | A size equal 1in/72 = 1.33px |
| pc | pica | A size equal 1in/6 = 12pt = 16px |
| cm | centimeter | A size equal to 96px/2.54 = 37.8px |
| mm | millimeter | A size equal to 96px/25.4 = 3.8px |
| Q | quarter millimeter | A size equal to 96px/1016 = 0.94px |
Examples
/* compressed */
letter-spacing: -1px;
/* expanded */
letter-spacing: 1px;